View Mike Tyson Fights Gorilla PNG. Mike tyson has admitted that he once offered a zookeeper $10k to fight a silverback gorilla. The boxing legend became the youngest heavyweight champion aged 20 back in 1986.
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Add to that the muscle mass and the skeleton that's evolved to support it and even if tyson managed to land a punch it wouldn't do much damage. Because the gorilla's fighting responses are instinctual, not trained, they will be faster than the human's. Who's crazy enough to fight a gorilla, let alone pay for it? The former heavyweight champion of the world is a known animal lover and recently made the news discussing his past owning exotic animals, staking his claim as america's original 'tiger king'.